Former Portland Trailblazers star Kevin Duckworth is dead at the age of 44-years old.  He was in Oregon to help promote the Blazers.  The cause of Duckworth’s death has yet to be determined.

Kevin Duckworth, a two-time All-Star who was the starting center on the Portland Trail Blazer teams that made it to the 1990 and 1992 NBA Finals, has died of unknown causes.

The seven-foot center played in the NBA from 1986-1997. Most of those years he was in Portland, although at the end of his career he played for the Bullets, Bucks, and Clippers.

Duckworth was a two-time all-star and is the 10th leading scorer in Blazers history.